Biography
Dr. Bonnie Spring is a board-certified clinical health psychologist, Krafft Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine and Director of the Florida Blue Center for Rural Health Research and Policy at Florida State University, College of Medicine. Her research develops and evaluates technology-assisted interventions that promote healthy change in multiple chronic disease behavioral risk factors, particularly obesity, poor quality diet, physical inactivity, and smoking. The Spring Lab, led by Bonnie Spring, Ph.D., develops and tests interventions to promote weight loss, multiple healthy diet and physical activity changes, and smoking cessation by utilizing health promotionists, wearable devices, and mobile smartphone applications. We aim to reduce risk factors for chronic diseases by optimizing innovative technology-supported interventions to generate healthy behavior change.
